A discourse concerning the Redeemer's dominion over the invisible world, and the entrance thereinto

You both concurred, in the Dedication of this your Son, as in the rest of yours; and I doubt not with great seriousness; you Covenanted with God in Christ, to be his God. And if he enabled you to be in good earnest herein, even that was of special Grace and Favour; and ought to come into the account of the many good things you •ave received of God's hand, as offering to God willingly, did, in the estimate of David: when the ⟨p. 9⟩Oblation was of a meaner kind, 1 Chron. 29.14.

But then you ought to consider, what the import, and meaning was of that your Covenant, wherein you accepted God in Christ to be the God of your Son; and dedicated him to God through Christ to be his. Was it not absolute, and without limitation? that God should be a God to him entirely, and without reserve? and that he should be his, absolutely, and be disposed of by him, at his Pleasure? Otherwise, there was a repugnancy, and contradiction, in the very terms of your Covenant. To be a God to him! Is not, God, the name of a Being incapable of limitation? Doth it not signify infinite unlimited Power, and Goodness? To be a God to any one, therefore, under restriction, is to be a God to him, and no God. And so to ⟨p. 10⟩Covenant with God, can neither have sincerity in it, nor good sense. He can be under no restraint, in the exercises of his Power, and Goodness towards any, to whom he vouchsafes to be their God in Covenant; but what he is pleased to lay upon himself; which must be from his own Wisdom and good Pleasure, to which in covenanting we refer our selves; with particular Faith, in reference to what he hath expressly promised; and with general, that all shall be well, where his Promise is not express. But from our selves, nothing can be prescribed to him. He must be our all, or nothing; in point of Enjoyment as our Sovereign, all-comprehending Good; in point of Government, as our Sovereign all-disposing Lord. So we take him, in Covenanting with him, for our selves, and ours. For he so propounds, and offers